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Chance Phillips
@chancephillips.bsky.social
A student in the economics PhD program at UMass Amherst.
Recreationally reading: Harry Jaffa’s Crisis of the House Divided
Most bylines in @alreporter.com and @liberalcurrents.com
Substack: someconvenienttree.com
It was *obvious* following his appearance on the Odd Lots podcast, but could be ascertained well before then.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I've really enjoyed The Umbrellas of Cherbourg the two or three times I've watched it, but I'm unsure how it would be classified as a comedy
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In order to work, the gears of government must mesh, giving the departments a ‘partial agency in’ one another’s activities (F 47.325).”
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Garry Wills in A Necessary Evil: “How did Madison respond to such accusations [of mixing the legislative, judicial, and executive powers]? He calmly admitted them. There is no perfect separation of the departments, and—given his functional defense of separation—there could not be. ...
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“If I hate what the Securities and Exchange Commission is doing, or the Federal Trade Commission, or name your alphabet, what do I do about that? I can’t go to Congress. I can’t elect a different president.”

... Congress can and obviously does have power here & both changed markedly under Biden.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It was quite literally a major controversy surrounding the Clint Eastwood movie Richard Jewell!
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I actually think very simple text only covers can be appealing (see this book "Two English Republican Tracts") but an all white background paired with a rather self-important title is a bit much, yeah.
books.google.com/books?id=v0t...
Two English Republican Tracts
Neville and Moyle were two of the leading spokesmen for republicanism of the kind proposed by English publicists in the seventeenth century. In Plato Redivivus, Neville examines the decay of 'gothic' ...
books.google.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
(Mainly because I'm not even sure that the summary is wholly accurate at first skim. The paper appears to be wholly focused on whether wealth effects for landlords are counterbalanced by gains for tenants, and not so much on investment or availability of rental units.)
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
You should probably link to the actual working paper, not the summary produced by the landlord advocacy org.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control
This paper studies the effects of rent control on the housing wealth of renters, landlords, and homeowners. Over the nine months following the passage of rent c
papers.ssrn.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There was one at a student volunteer led musical theater performance I attended just the other day. I believe that's the only time I've heard one outside of perhaps a DSA event I attended in the past or something?
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM